Shadow Size

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit children’s ideas about how light interacts with an object to form a shadow. The probe is designed to reveal children’s ideas about the size of a shadow in relation to…

Nature Did It First: Engineering Through Biomimicry

Journal Article | July 2023

Engaging Students with Magnets, Rulers, Globes, Rocks, Leaves, and . . . Dogs

Journal Article | July 2023

Cancer and Formaldehyde

Journal Article | April 2023

Using Growth Rings on Wooden Blocks and Plywood to Enhance Students’ Spatial Reasoning Skills

Journal Article | May 2023

Spatial reasoning is one of the most challenging skills to master in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. This article reports the results of a teaching intervention that involved using…

Teacher Responsiveness as a Core Feature of Justice- and Equity-Centered Instruction

Journal Article | May 2023

Promoting Sensemaking Through an Impactful Instructional Sequence

Journal Article | July 2023

What’s the Buzz?

Journal Article | April 2021

Going Viral

Journal Article | June 2021

Learning the Temperature Dependency of Matter by Making Ice Cream

Journal Article | August 2021

Rethinking Online Science Learning

Journal Article | March 2022

Keep Space Scurvy Away With Ascorbic Acid a Day

Journal Article | January 2021

Scientifically Modeling Water

Journal Article | May 2022

Animal Survival

Journal Article | March 2023

What is in Our Air?

Journal Article | March 2023